Three men, two aged 18 and one aged 19, were declared dead at the scene of a crash involving a bus and a car in south Wales. At around 7pm last night (Monday 11 December 2023) emergency services were called to the scene of a serious road traffic collision involving a bus and an Audi […]
A motorcyclist who made a false claim for £48,000 credit hire costs has been jailed for nine months after refusing to engage with contempt proceedings, The Law Society’s Gazette reports. Diego Araujo was also hit with a £60,000 costs order after substantial resources were expended on multiple adjourned hearings. In Metroline Limited v Araujo, The […]
Eight irreplaceable historic vehicles owned by the Friends of King Alfred Buses (FoKAB) preservation society and its members have been destroyed in a fire in the early morning of 8 December. The vehicles were being stored in a unit in a farm in Penton Mewsey, near Andover, which caught fire. One of the nearby units […]
Transport technology specialist UrbanThings and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) company SkedGo are announcing their strategic partnership. The partnership will combine SkedGo’s expertise in journey planning with UrbanThings’ experience in ticketing and real-time information to support operators and cities with access to a deeper level of configuration for their journey planning offerings. As well as promoting the availability […]
Shuttle Buses has ordered one Alexander Dennis Enviro100EV next-generation electric bus following the model’s launch last month. The Ayrshire-based operator is the first independent operator to order the ‘big small bus’. The purchase is supported by existing funding from the first phase of the Scottish Government’s Scottish Zero-Emission Bus Challenge Fund (ScotZEB). “We’re confident that […]
The manufacturing group which includes Mellor, the Sigma bus sales operation and Treka has been acquired by Guido Dumarey, a Belgian industrial entrepreneur. He gets the businesses of Coleman Milne, VCS Police & Special Projects, Mellor, Treka, Promech Technologies, and JM Engineering. These businesses are consolidated under the umbrella of Woodall Nicholson. The group was […]
Arriva South has achieved the DVSA’s Earned Recognition status. The recognition demonstrates the bus operator’s commitment to compliance and safety standards in the Midlands, Shires and Southern counties regions. The accreditation to the Earned Recognition Scheme took around a year to complete. An external company had to make sure compliance and safety standards were being […]
Driver training specialist HGVC has expanded its offering to the bus and coach market with the recruitment of 16 additional PCV instructors over the past year. This is a fourfold increase in its number of full-time instructors. The business plans to recruit a further eight instructors before the end of the year. HGVC has also […]